Famous Quotes

Quotes by Albert Einstein

• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
• That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
• The environment is everything that isn't me.
• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
• The man of science is a poor philosopher.
• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
• The only source of knowledge is experience.
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
• True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
• We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
• We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.